Where do Monsters come from? 

Your channel is criminally underrated.

I actually like these longer videos. Some parts of my job are fairly mindless and repetitive (such as sticking labels on a stack of items), so it is nice to listen to etymology and history while I do the same task for an hour. Really, these videos let me enjoy that sort of work -- it's very relaxing.

This was, unironically, a masterpiece

Fantastic work as usual! Truly a monstrous video

Wow that was a long video. I can imagine how much work that was necessary to produce it. Thank you for your hard work, really enjoying these!

A monstrous video indeed! Worth the wait :)

There's so much info in this video it's bonkers. I'm half way thru and I feel like I've binged 20 of your episodes.

What a ride. Thanks for beeing one of the few who do longer videos.

That story of King Midas donkeys ears is almost identical to the Irish story of King Labraid Longseich or King Larry except he had horses ears.

As a near-Linguist (have an MA but never did anything with it,) I was enjoy these. I like to try and predict what directions the videos will take- so far with little success! :)

As always, some of the finest content on the website!

just discovered this amazing channel!! I've only seen a few videos but I've learned so much

These videos are great, keep it up! I wish you a very spooky holiday season

I am fascinated by how money and monsters are connected, amazing video!!

A new favourite episode. I have been debating a few concepts in here with friends, but could never quite get the ideas right, but this goes into just enough detail to make one think more about the topic.

I lost it at Count von Count counting grains.

This one was EVERYTHING i wanted. Thank you.

This episode was great! Thanks!

What a grand panjandrum of knowledge! Great stuff!

Good video to show to children who believe in monster and vampires being real.

Thanks a lot. Your video is mesmerizing.

I love all the history and mythology and stuff that is all wrapped up in one word.

This was quite the journey, really interesting stuff though

May I suggest the etymology of the word "Carbuncle?"

40:42 so fang meant booty huh…

Hi! Although I'm a year late at this point, I'd thought I'd mention that the Norse "björn" and all its counterparts meaning "brown" in the Germanic languages is a euphemism people used so they wouldn't have to use the real word and call its attention to themselves. It's very possible that the true name for the animal was such a large taboo that it's become lost to history. Entirely in keeping with the theme of monsters.

In Dutch "Monster" has two meanings: monster or sample. I think it is the same in Scandinavian languages...

In Turkish we still use the word "obur" (ober/obyr) meaning glutton. :) As far as I know, it was a creature of ancient Turkic mythology that dug up graves and fed on the dead.

this is simply astonishing

Wonderful!

Amazing and deep. Now, I must reflect upon monsters and money in my real life offline. 👏🏾

Nice work..I like it..

Well it's almost Christmas.... let's see

That was really interesting, but JESUS was it long!

21:25 Gojira 🔥🤘

I'm waiting for cthulu

So... at 12.30ish when you say the pound weight(?) was 240 silver coins, from centuries ago, is this why it was 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound even up to decimalisation in the UK in 1971? Basically still 240 pennies in a pound. Or is that coincidence? Edit - I've just rewatched the segment again. I don't think it is coincidence and my mind is blown.

2:23 - they fall into the uncanny valley!

Me: ooh, exploration on the history of famous monsters! Let's go. This video: as much economic theory as monster lore Me: wait what The true monster is greed, wealth, and oppression, I guess?

i love how money, banking and capitalism are on this video about monsters...

Väinämöinen is a monster. Change my mind.

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👍 good video

The vampire Norway. They used spoken word and when they first came across a ghost person they were afraid and made sure not to breed with it because it makes weak babies. and depresses everyone. When runes came around they felt like shit about smashing draugers. Maybe they where pinatas?

And yes there are many of us Syrians and other Arabs in Latin America, especially Argentina. Selma Hayek and Shakira are to Arab Latin Americans like myself but I am also half Irish and have some Amerindian and Spanish blood ancestry called mestisos

I love your channel. Also I'm Argentinian. "The Spanish plundered all their (our) silver" ???? Argentina doesn't have any silver. The conquistadors just speculated it did. It's a lot like Greenland. Greenland is not the lush, green, pastoral land leif Ericson said it was and Argentina doesn't have any abundance of natural silver.

Lol! @ 33:11 the bust of Socrates! Never saw that one before.. but it looks like Bert Lahr's Lion from The Wizard of Oz! Sorry 😏 had to share that! 😁

You forgot the monster within “demonstrate”.

To Matthew: Did you just say "lootenant" while being Canadian? I didn't expect that Spanish Inquisition... I thought you'd say "leftenant."

Also, Leviathan is Tannin, not a dragon. It's an undefined "sea monster" as much as it is the Greek word "Cetus", which is the word that made the name "Cetacean" to came.

Monster is in the movie

the breakthru is coming.

this is one of the sexiest things i've ever seen, i hecking love folklore, myth, and linguistics

Bonus easter egg: “monstrance” depicted at 27:20

53:45 Hahahahahaaaa!

For when the French Republican Calendar or military ranks? It's a year since I suggested these requests and I still burn with impatience to hear those etymologies told by Matthew...

I suspect the Elder Pliny had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek when relating incredulity towards the clothing being still "good". I suspect that the 9 days of Zeus hanging from Yggdrasil is somehow cognate with the 9 Gates of Hell, and that the Elder Pliny's Account may be a retelling of a Concept of The Heaven and Hell Traditions the Ancients passed on to All of us in their Numerological Alphabetical Anthologies. I'm still giggling about the Lion.. and now I'm seeing a wise old Father of History grinning across the spans of Time Itself nodding back at me.. winking. The 7 deadly sins are found in the 7 chakras of the physiological soul-man. These are fairly similar across the Board regardless of the Age or Culture.. I always wondered why there were only 7 Deadly Sins and 9 Gates, Realms or Levels of Hell.. and Now I believe my ancient brother, the Elder Pliny may have connected the Dots to the Doors for me.. hopefully just temporally speaking.. off course.. ! Once 1 becomes a mortal soul, one must be held Accountable for not only what we should know, but what we didn't.. from the Hebrew G0D's Perspective, at least. As in, " I have said, 'ye are gods', but you will die like men.", per King David, reiterated by his Progeny Yeshua Ha'Moshiach, a.k.a. Jesus Christ in the current English vernacular. So once we have become mortal flesh, we must be tested on each level.. presuming we all either Start our awareness of Eternity during our stay in hell.. Or.. having fallen into Hell out of our own choices or misperceptions of our own " Righteousness" or limited selfish perceptions and impressions. So 1 sin in the mortal realm is 1 level of hell.. but the Extra 2 Gates belong only to the Creator God for either the Gate out or into hell and the Other to Heaven Itself and Ultimately.. our Ascension back to our Father's Presence and the Holy Spirit bears each of our mortal witnesses throughout the entire process, from the Moment we come On Line from the perspective of our own awareness within this mortal life. There seems to be a consensus in my own spirit right now, that this is a Central Truth that is within the Nidus & Umbilical Spiritual Torsions which rings a 3 note harmonious chord, so I have my answer as to the Tension between the Polarities of our Teachers and ancestors and That of our Celestial Guardians and the ones Behind that Immortal Veil! Wow! Who knew 1 terrific language video and a gorgeous Friday afternoon would be like That? Seriously? Who knew? I'll bet Pliny had odds on it! Lol! And I Know my Creative Director certainly Has.. all along. I think our Heavenly Father and the rest of the ones in His Service on Either Side of this 3 Ring Circus of Life in the Light of Christ are cheering for me to get and Keep a Clue.. so they must either All have fallen themselves at some point.. or knew they would.. or maybe they are just Fans of a Learning Curve! In my case, all I know is that Inspiration Begins With Love.. and whatever comes Next must Reckon with That. What a gr8! Day to be alive! December 11th, 2020 A.D. I found a cookie.. 🤗

Short Answer? Governments.

Another meaning of MERX? Government of Canada's procurement system. Merely coincidence?

The reference to Halloween costume is not correct, it was a pagan tradition, at that time, for people to disguise themselves so that the spirits of their ancestors would not recognise them and cause them harm or mischief. This evolved into the custom of fancy dress along with trick or treat and it is, today, highly commercial. A note about coins and shields, pre-Euro Portuguese currency was the escudo which means shield.

How do you discuss literary vampires and not mention Le Fanu's Carmilla? It even features a strong lesbian element that would be folowed up to our time.

baron 'sam-ee-dee'

In for a penny in for a pound...

Full metal alchemist.

These theses explain way too well why I'm perceived as a monster, being nonbinary.

Geese are the real monsters.

Is there any evidence whatsoever that ancient peoples found fossils and dug them up carefully enough to reassemble them and notice they looked like dragons? That just seems like such a ludicrously fanciful supposition. There was some mining done back then but they did not have archaeologists or paleontologists to call in when they found something interesting.

Interesting that the cartoon of the fat capitalists sitting on top of a wooden floor that in turn presses down on hundreds of poor labourers is reminiscent of a particularly gruesome event in the legend of Vlad the Impaler, a precursor of Dracula and a monster in his own right.

I have to say something. Dragons are not found in many place of the world. This is a misconception. The concept of dragons are almost exclusively either a serpent, or the medieval one from Europe, which is a syncretism of the grecorroman/christian Serpent(Dragon), the Gallian/French Wyvern and the Norse Wyrm by a Norman writter. The concept of calling anything else a dragon is due to missionaries, that are basically, cultural conquistadores, imperialists in a very bad disguise used to culturally eliminate the legitimacy of the foreigners religion. A practice that came from the Romans and other empires, to the point that they syncretized many gods into their ones. Yes, add the myth of the Tower of Babel to the equation, where "all religions and cultures came from an original one. Which is the original? Ours it is, of course! Praise the Lord!". This is why we call the Jotum "giants", de Djinn "Genees" and the Long/Ryuu/Yeong as... "dragon". If you accept that "everything is a dragon", then you will also have to accept that Yahweh/The Lord/Allah, is Bacchus/Dionisius, since the Romans called the god of the Hebrews: "Bacvs Ivevs", or, "Bacchus of the Jews". (Remember that the first miracle of Jesus was to convert water in wine? ;) The Romans were already very stablished by then...)

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Wow! The comments here are awful. What a lot of nasty, ignorant people out there - and so easily manipulated to be enraged by the plight of people who are often far worse off than you will ever know… shame on you! Do you know what the phrase ‘divide & rule’ means?

"ubyr" sounds like Polish "upiór" - ghost nightmare comes from proto-Indo-European "mer" which it is also a source of Polish word "umrzeć"- die. Annoying that you talk little about monsters and a lot about money, capitalism is just an aspect of nature, you stopped before the end to make your stupid money hot take, real fear is the fear of losing to nature and dying.

dude, I can't do an hour long episode. Split it up

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